Alejandro Gasca Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Over 30 new injection molds for more than 7 customers, for example: VW 426 - Toyota 311D - Volvo P6700 - Stellantis LB29 / EJ - T Model X - BMW G050607 - Ford U725 Responsibilities: • Interface with design engineering to review all injection molded design concepts for tooling feasibility and cavity optimization. Make recommendations to optimize part and tooling design.• Provide competitive quotes (cost, timing, cavitation, and press size) based on program needs.• Participate in engineering part and tool design reviews to reach a final product and tooling design that is capable of meeting customer requirements.• Kick off and track all new injection molded tooling, conduct tool design reviews with the tool shop, approve details of the tool design, and ensure that Sika molding standards are utilized.• Support Queretaro, Mex. plant launches. • Work with engineering, quality, and the tool shops to ensure that the tool can produce parts to print.• Set up and attend molding trials; review tool and part dimensional layouts; make recommendations to correct any tooling/process discrepancies.• Assist process engineering in the setup, verification, and launch of all new injection molded tools.• Assist process engineering/production in the troubleshooting of current production tools. Determine, schedule, track, and confirm the results of the corrective actions implemented.• Input and maintain the history of all mold maintenance and repairs done on all assigned tools.• Continually develop and update the Sika tooling standards as a team with the tooling group.• Find and implement state-of-the-art tooling techniques.• Participate as a member of the program launch teams to report and update all team members on tooling issues, timing, and cost.• Monitor and track multiple molds on an ongoing basis from launch through production.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Responsibilities: • Provide product design, development and launch support to effectively and efficiently launch products, as well as grow the technical capabilities of the Yanfeng organization.• Understand internal and external customer design requirements.• Create, communicate and validate design.• Lead product launch.• Utilize PRP to guide launch process.• Capture lessons learned and develop tactical plans to meet deliverables.• Deliver design within engineering budget and BOM cost targets.• Communicate effectively both internally and externally.• Apply structured problem solving methods for issue resolution.• Manage program risk.

Querétaro, Mexico

Querétaro, Mexico

Responsibilities:• Support the BMW G20 Door Panel program launch. Achieve the Run & Run target for BMW approval. Document and improve cycle times and movements.• Support the Daimler MFA2 Instrumental Panel program launch. Plan and capture the layout and flow distribution between station and station of the racks based on the versions demand.• Participate and oversaw the GMC T1XX Floor Console program. Contribute to achieve the daily rates with the increase on the demand. Create a table in EOL for the Quality team to mark the defects observed for which we had to scrap the armrest to execute a corrective plan by Pareto graphs.Achievements:• Achieve the objective of daily production rate in GMC T1XX Floor Console line for a critical week, with the requested production by the customer to get the capable green status.• 1 program developed for MFA2 in Visual Basic programming language for daily production records and KPI´s.